Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s “My Wife is a White Russian” is a depressing story about a businessman with a debilitating condition, attempting to eat dinner and drink wine at a fancy restaurant with two business clients. He’s unable to speak to them, so his gold-digging wife does most of the talking, as well as wiping the drool off …

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton …